Overtone MCP Server

Real-time news with tone analysis, brand safety, and narrative shift signals for AI agents.

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What is the Overtone MCP Server?

Real-time news with tone analysis, brand safety, and narrative shift signals for AI agents.

The short version

An MCP server that gives any agent real-time news plus the contextual intelligence to use it well — tone distribution, emerging stories, narrative shifts, spike alerts, and tone-over-time charts — powered by Overtone's publisher network.

  • What's the tone of coverage on a topic — is the public mood angry,
  • What's emerging right now that had zero coverage yesterday?
  • Where is the narrative turning — which topics are shifting tone
  • Is there a spike in anger or fear around something I'm watching?
  • How has tone trended over time on a given story?

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Maintainer setup documentation.

Recorded tools

Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.

ToolWhat it does
newsArticles on a topic, each tagged with tone, brand-safety signals, article type, and concepts. Use for "what's happening with X".
toneEmotional tone distribution across recent coverage of a topic — happy, funny, hopeful, informational, angry, sad, fearful, plus the dominant_tone.
pulsePollable spike detector. For each watched tone (default angry / sad / fearful), returns spike_ratio vs. a baseline window and a boolean spiking. alerts is populated only when spike_ratio >= 1.5 with meaningful volume.
emergingConcepts appearing in the last 24 hours that had zero coverage in the prior 48 hours — candidate emerging stories. Cluster-filtered to ≥3 articles and ≥2 sources so single-article noise doesn't leak through.
velocityConcepts whose tone distribution has shifted most sharply between the prior 48 hours and the most recent 24 hours. Answers "where is the narrative turning?". Ranked by shape-normalized L2 distance, so a uniform volume ri
timeseriesTone trajectory over time for a topic. bin is hour, 6h, or day. Returns an ordered series of per-bin tone averages, article_count, and dominant_tone.
reportCalled silently *after* the agent presents articles to the user, to log which displayed_urls it actually showed. Helps Overtone understand what content is most valuable to agentic clients.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
OVERTONE_NEWS_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
OVERTONE_NEWS_API_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • “Use Overtone to Codex.”
  • “Use Overtone to news.”
  • “Use Overtone to tone.”

Frequently asked questions

Real-time news with tone analysis, brand safety, and narrative shift signals for AI agents. Confirm the tools offered by your installed version in the connected client. Tool availability and permissions depend on the server and account configuration.